I think a remake would do very well. Perhaps the actor Vin Diesel could have a role in it. He could do well in any number of roles. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?
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It was remade, twice:
(1) a two-part TV movie, a European co-production starring Klaus-Maria Brandauer as Nero in 1985, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089870/) which wasn't terribly well received
(2) a Polish version which appeared as both a theatrical feature film in 2001 and a longer TV series in 2003 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282108/) which didn't get very much attention in the US or UK.
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Vin has a sag card so he does qualify as an actor.
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I have a good friend in the US Army who spends his spare time in group shots in films. He and all the others with whom he does this all have SAG cards too. Trust me they are not actors in any way. They laugh about this all the time. I would bet many "Actors" like Vin D would actually fall more in this category. They may have their cards but that does not mean they can act. I certainly would not ever pay to see Vin again! I made that mistake only once.
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It was remade, twice:
(1) a two-part TV movie, a European co-production starring Klaus-Maria Brandauer as Nero in 1985, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089870/) which wasn't terribly well received
(2) a Polish version which appeared as both a theatrical feature film in 2001 and a longer TV series in 2003 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282108/) which didn't get very much attention in the US or UK.
This is an Adaptation of an 18th Century Novel which I wouldn't be to intrested in as much as I loved this film.
I'd rather they just follow the History of Nero and the Early Church.
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It's actually a 19th Century novel, published in 1895.
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I would like a remake too, a version more true to the novel.
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I'd prefer more true to History, which Novel it's elf really isn't.
Nero was actualy a Very competent Ruler despite his Vices and also very Popular with Most of the Roman population, only the Upper classes who had to deal wiht him first hand saw him for who he was, and ironically they themselves weren't much better, possibly worse.
And Making Poppea the little evil Voice in Nero's ear is a very tiered cliche of this genre, According to Josephus Poppea was actualy a very Moral person, and he knew her Personally.
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The common people have usually not been able to tell whether a ruler is good or not. They are all the same to them, rich people far away from them, living in luxury. But just because they didn't bother the commoners, it doesn't mean that Nero and Poppaea deserve a different portraital than this. Nero was after all Caligula's nephew. Madness ran in the family. And when Poppaea married this man, you have to wonder about her too. She obviously became the wife of a madman just because of the power she could get as an empress. I also believe that Henryk Sienkiewicz did as much research before writing his novel as one could do in the late 19th century. He actually describes an ancient Rome, which is very close to today's view of it.
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I wasn't trying to defend Nero, he was Mad but he wasn't an incompetent Idiot, unlike Caligula he had been trained since his Youth to be Emperor.
Poppaea was very friendly to the Jews, and I tend to believe what Josephus said being the only person to write abut her who actually knew her, if she contributed to the decision to Persecute Christianity at all, it was probably cause of unkind things she heard about them from her Jewish friends.
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I would like a remake too, a version more true to the novel.
See I'd prefer something that isn't mostly about made up characters, but people who where involved, funny how every Movie abut Nero's Persecution shows only Peter or Paul's death, not Both.
Actually a little known fact is the Apocryphal acts of Peter has Paul coming to Rome after Peter's dead and convincing Nero to stop the Persecution.
BTW Paul's epistles imply Paul was in fact initially acquitted in the trial before Nero Acts set up for but never showed, the Persecution came latter.
I'd also like to see how the Events in Judea leading to the Jewish revolt tied into these events.
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So would I.
I loved the novel, but Deborah Kerr's Lygia was just so insipid and one dimensional. In the book she had feelings and turmoils like any human Christian.
Likewise Vinicius was all wrong. He was never jealous of Lygia's Christianity. It was something that he thought added to her appeal.
I believe that much of your puzzlement is due to Sienkiewicz's 19th century-perspective on how people should or should not behave, his Christian values etc.
They differ a lot from modern views - and understandably so.
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I think a remake would do very well. Perhaps the actor Vin Diesel could have a role in it. He could do well in any number of roles. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?
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This film needs a remake!!